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The power traphow leadership changes people, and what to do about it /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The power trapby Nik Kinley.
Reminder of title:	how leadership changes people, and what to do about it /
Author:	Kinley, Nik.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025.
Description:	xiii, 182 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Leadership.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-90682-4
ISBN:	9783031906824$q(electronic bk.)

The power traphow leadership changes people, and what to do about it /
Kinley, Nik.

The power traphow leadership changes people, and what to do about it /[electronic resource] :by Nik Kinley. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025. - xiii, 182 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

1. The Two Great Lies of Power -- 2. Brain Cells, Hormones & What I Learnt in Prison -- 3. How Power Impels Us -- 4. How Power Focuses & Simplifies Our Judgement -- 5. How Power Insulates & Isolates Us -- 6. Greg Wallace's Video -- 7. How Power Reveals & Amplifies Us -- 8. Reverberations -- 9. How Power Sensitises & Triggers Us -- 10. Seven Responses to Threat -- 11. Why it's Getting Worse -- 12. We Need to Talk About Donald -- 13. How Powerholders Can Protect Themselves -- 14. Selecting People for Power -- 15. What Organisations Need to Do -- 16. Power and the Politician.

"As we witness leaders on the world's stage struggle with assuming and practising power, this important book reveals how power changes everyone who has some, affecting our ability to lead and the impact we have. Bringing his extensive decades-long expertise as a psychotherapist, leader, researcher, and assessor of top executives all over the world, Nik shines a light on what power can do to people and what we all need to do to ensure we use it not just for the benefit of our own career success, but also the benefit and well-being of the organisations and people we lead, and the societies of which we are part." -Dr. Shlomo Ben-Hur, Professor of Leadership & Organizational Behavior, IMD Business School, Switzerland We have an entirely messed-up relationship with power. It is something that almost everyone wants, that promises much and can help us achieve great things. Yet power isn't something we openly talk about or understand, and that's a problem. While power is an essential part of every leadership role, it is also a difficult and sometimes toxic partner that changes everyone who holds it. And often, in ways that make being a good leader much harder. Approached carefully, however, the worst of power's negative effects can be avoided and balanced by its positives. This book shows you how. It reveals what power does to people, and how it both affects them as leaders and the people they lead. And it shows how, in turn, leaders can affect the positions of power they hold, too. Incorporating the latest neuroscience, the book offers clear lessons for how to successfully manage power. For leaders, it provides practical advice on how to survive having power, avoiding its worst effects. For organisations and institutions, it is about how to ensure that the people who have power are equipped and supported to thrive with it. And for us all, as people who choose and follow leaders, it is about how we can identify those most at risk of falling to power's dark side. Ultimately, this book provides a plan for how we can have a healthier relationship with power, so that as individuals we can be better leaders, and as organisations and societies we can be better led. Nik Kinley is a London-based leadership expert with over 35 years' experience assessing and developing leaders. His varied background includes commercial roles, senior corporate HR positions, and consulting roles, as well as over a decade working in prisons as a forensic psychotherapist. He thus has the unique experience of having worked with royalty, CEOs, murderers, politicians, and children.

ISBN: 9783031906824$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-90682-4doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

187557
Leadership.

LC Class. No.: HD57.7

Dewey Class. No.: 658.4092

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